Essays Tagged: "Harmer"

lear that the student uses a top-­‐down approach to understand the sentence. According to Harmer using a top-­‐down approach means that the "Reader […] gets a general view o ... In the next sentence this previous knowledge is crucial for the student to understand the sentence. Harmer says that "In order to make sense of any text we need to have 'pre-­‐existing knowl ...

n concentrating on the product we are only interested in the aim of a task and in the end product" (Harmer, 2001:257).As opposed to the product school we find the process school:"Those who advocate a ... cess approach aims to get tot he heart of the various skills that should be employed when writing" (Harmer, 2001:257)."The goal of this approach is to nurture the skills with which writers work out th ...